Baked Asian Beer Barbecue Chicken Thighs. Less than 30-minutes and just a few simple steps and you have a delicious dinner! When you work from home, with limited human interaction, you do weird things. You become overly immeshed with your UPS guy, to the point that you are genuinely disappointed when there is another guy… Read More
These Grilled Beer Chicken Sliders with Burrata and Stout Chipotle Cherry Sauce can be made on a grill, or indoors in a grill pan. Easy and delicious, perfect for game day! Welcome to 2017. Welcome to the year that is equal parts a welcomed relief and intensely terrifying. Let’s make a plan, you and I. Let’s… Read More
Baked Everything Bagel Beer Chicken Legs They tell me it’s all about the water. That’s what bagel people will tell you if you listen long enough. That New York bagels are obviously the best because of the magical properties that the water contains. That’s also, coincidentally enough, what beer people will tell you. That different… Read More
White Bean Turkey Beer Chili (for Thanksgiving leftovers) Please excuse the interruption from your otherwise lovely Holiday weekend while I boss you around. If you have leftover turkey this is what you should do with it. Make yourself some warm-your-bones chili, full of the beer brined turkey that you obviously made, and use it as… Read More
Pulled Chipotle Beer Chicken Sliders I’ve made a decision. I need to clear the emotional cache from this past week. I need to a little distance from reality and my incessant need to over-think. I need a break and a beer and I’ve decided that a trip to Bend, Oregon can fix what ails me right… Read More
Chili Brown Sugar Oven Beer Can Chicken A few months ago I sat at a table with a mess of brewers and beer people. The conversation turned to the water shortage, and farming practices. The debate went back and forth, what we can do, what we need to be careful of, and even how to… Read More
Buffalo Beer Cheese Bites + What is Wet Hop Beer This time of year there is an obsession among the beer crowd, an almost singular obsession that takes over. It’s not pumpkin ales, which seem to be more of an obligation brewers take on mid-summer to compete in an oversaturated fall market. It’ not even… Read More
I had a camera in my face and a man four-inches shorter than me asking questions he should know the answers to. This is mid-day TV, I suppose. This is a cooking segment on a Los Angeles NBC station. This is a person unable to let a millisecond of silence creep across your screen. Your… Read More
Street Fair Grilled Beer Chicken There is a street fair in LA that I used to frequent, with chicken the smells so incredible it will haunt your dreams. I’d rush past the booths of produce, handmade ceramic mugs, the guy trying to get me to vote for his City Council pick, the face painting lady,… Read More
20 minute dinner: Chili Beer Chicken Tacos with Pineapple Salsa Stocking a beer tub for a summer party is as important as planning the food. Beer sets a tone and fuels conversation. It’s as much about offering your friends their favorites as it is about introducing them to new ones. When planning the brew menu keep in… Read More
“If you’re expecting a new craft beer, with a fist of strong hoppy notes, you would be disappointed,” says Erik Lund, the head brewer from Carlsberg, who shifts his tall, lanky frame on a couch across from me. We’re in a back room of a building in Denmark that could be older than the City… Read More
One pot, thirty minutes: Chicken in a Creamy Parmesan Bacon Beer Sauce “It’s because you’re entitled!” I heard the agent at customs yell through the window. She spits her words at an English woman in front of me, waking up the weary crowd in line to enter Stockholm. I was running on the fumes of… Read More
Mushroom Stuffed Hoisin Stout Glazed Chicken Thighs It can be suffocating, really. This urge that has had a hold of me for so many years to please the people. A strangling grip on my throat that kept any words of disappointment from slipping out. Why is this? Why is someone else happiness (especially strangers) prioritized… Read More
Grilled Beer and Brown Sugar Wings Food people mark the seasons in a different way. Sure, plant people mark it by what to plant when, and what to prune, what to seed. Fashion people pin the crap out of new wardrobes. The acting crowd doesn’t have weather seasons, they have “pilot season,” “award season,” “I… Read More
Beer Brined Rotisserie Spiced Chicken Legs I spent a few years resenting chicken. Not chicken in general, beer can chicken. Mostly because when people found out that I cooked with beer for a living, that was the first recipe they thought of. “Like….beer can chicken?” Um, yeah. Or Beer Brined Duck with Stout Pomegranate Sauce… Read More
Coq au Ale: Drunk French Chicken I’m in a back room of a brewery a few minutes after delivering the keynote address at a beer conference and I settle in to listen to a presentation about glassware. I’m bracing for the typical arguments, still vaguely uncertain that a “proper” glass has anything more than… Read More
Slow Cooker Tuscan White Bean and Beer Chicken Soup “You’re not reactionary, you’re rebellious but intentional. You think before you jump off the bridge.” Someone I know well said this to me once. I was the kid your parents warned you about, the one who jumps off the bridge and your parents ask if you’re… Read More
Mushroom Stout Skillet Chicken Pot Pie (with vegan option). One pot, thirty minutes, lick-the-pan-good. What I learned in 2015 If you lower your rates to accommodate someones budget they won’t appreciate you, they will devalue you. You’ll automatically be a bargain item, you’ll be on sale and worth less to them. I learned how to brew… Read More